More of Rhino Refugee Camp and Heading back to Royal International School

Daily we have been getting pictures and updates from Dan.  I am not always sure of the order of events, but want to make sure you all see the images and hear the videos.  These will at least give you an idea of what the Team is experiencing, no matter what order they appear.  To start off, here are a few more images from Rhino Camp.

Click here to view a video from a few members from the Jerusalem Church.

A Worship Team Dance and Song

The Rhino Camp Quiz Show, featuring Caleb, Darby and Josiah

The Team Singing in Church

Outside Jerusalem Church, Saying Goodbye

Yesterday's Blog talked about Alex competing this structure.  Today, Monday, January 30, Alex was hoping to purchase the roofing sheets and begin installing them tomorrow.  He hopes to start nursery school soon.  He expects to have 45 kids in each of the three classes (3's, 4's and 5's)  The parents are begging him to also open classes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades.  Alex said that if we could raise $1,500 per classroom ($4,500 total), it could be opened in two weeks.

 Where do you get your water.  Here are a couple of videos that tell more of how the people at Rhino Camp get and transport their water.

          Where does the water come from?

          How does the water get to their huts?  Each person uses at least one 5 gallon jerry can of water per day.

 An Instant Village

 (Note:  100% of all gifts to Royal School International go 100% to Africa.  Renae & Dan Peters guarantee this.  All gifts are tax-deductible in the USA.  The Peters' offices are in Surprise, AZ.)

After leaving Rhino Camp (whose total population may be approaching 1 million), the Team "rushed" to Bwana Tembo Safari Camp.  "Rushed" is in quotes because using Google maps, the Team took a "short cut" on some of the worst roads any of them had ever seen.  It included weaving thru poles in someone's backyard on a track so narrow it could only have been a walking path!  (I have no pictures - I was too busy laughing at "Mayor Mike" while he tried to drive the obstacle course.  - Dan Peters)

Bwana Tembo means "Mr. Elephant" - because often the elephants come into the compound.  This time a family of baboons greeted us.  There was just enough time before sundown for a game drive in Murchison Falls National Park.  Here are a few images of this drive.

The funniest thing!  We saw an elephant sleeping STANDING UP!  His tusks on both sides of the tree while his trunk wrapped around the tree.

Davide & Francesco, the two Italian brothers who own Bwana Tembo, served us a great steak and vegetable dinner while Rose Aber, Country Director of Village of Hope (VOH) shared how her ministry of rescuing child soldiers had begun.  Now  over 700 children, including young girls who were raped and became moms, VOH is a vital ministry in Gulu and Acholi area of Northern Uganda.

Down a Tiny Road and the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement

The Team went on a safari - click on the caption on the picture below to hear a little of their experience.

The Team on the Safari

The Team also went to Rhino Refugee Camp Settlement near Arua, Uganda. Click on the caption on the picture below to hear about this camp.

Click here to hear a little about this camp

Here is a map that will hopefully help you know where are men have been.

Here are a few video of the team's time at Rhino Refugee Camp:

Jesus, a Carpenter

Entering Jerusalem Church at Rhino Camp

Benches in the Church

Koboko, Uganda, which is about an hour north of the Rhino Camp. 
The men had breakfast at 6:30 am and left for the camp at 7:10.

This grass hut is where Alex has been staying.  When he arrived in Uganda on September 20, he was assigned to a new village in Rhino Camp along with 80,000 others.  United Nations gives each a blanket, 5 kg (about 11 lbs.) of food, a sauce pan, mattress, and a tarp to use to make a tent.  About 86% of the arrivals are women and children.

This picture shows Alex's mud hut.  The poles over his roof are for a new nursery school he is launching next week.

The Mountain Lake Team gave an offering of $1,050 for the roof.

Click here to see the presentation of this donation.

Spirit 104.5 FM

I spoke briefly with Caleb this afternoon.  He mentioned that the pictures of the wild encounters along the road was a trip they were taking to the Spirit 104.5 FM radio station in Koboko, Uganda.  The men were able to tour the station and visit with the personnel at the station.  Here are a few photos from their time at the station.

Station's 300' mast, which reaches over 60 miles

Transmitter Hall

Dinner of liver, pork, chicken, rice, chapati, potatoes, and bananas.  Everyone cleaned their plates.  😊

Video of the team practicing their song for Church tomorrow morning - click here

Saturday's Videos

Here are videos from the wild encounters they had today.  What a fun time for our men to experience.

Baboon

Baboon Ride

Along Came the Elephants

 Elephants and Deer

Mayor Nelson Talking to the Elephants 😨

The Elephant Whisperer

Get Back in the Car!

A Different Kind of Adventure

God has taken these men on a Great Adventure.  These men have gone to a land they have not been before, they are working with a people they have not met before, they are experiencing a way of doing things that may seem strange and different to them, and, most of all, they are being shown God's love in a way that I'm praying is changing them forever. 

Today, Saturday, January 28, they are starting on an adventure that is a wild kind of adventure.  Here are a few pictures of today's wild encounters. 

From Dan - Mayor Mike Nelson like the baboons.  Now he's all psyched up for the Safari.  He's hoping for an interactive opportunity with the giraffes and elephants.

I would say, "Mayor Mike Nelson, I do not think would be a very safe thing to do".  - Janell (watch the video in the blog titled "Saturday's Videos")